Michael Shepherd - Whodunnit?

Providence? It's 'What the Butler Saw' -
and ever sees, and ever shall have seen:
the One who knows what's needed long before,
and sees that it's delivered at the scene;

prepares it for the feast of human life;
presents it in due style at this repast;
then, in the festive moment, stands aloof,
invisible to him who plays the host;

sees that new dishes come, and plates removed
- fleet opportunities that come and go;
unseen- unless His presence sought and proved;
unspeaking, silent - unless spoken to.

Whodunnit? why, the butler, since you ask,
named Providence: God's world, and Word, and task.

Michael Shepherd

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/whodunnit/